Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:29:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? Message-ID: <199809220029.RAA26776@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809212150310.22189-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Sep 21, 98 09:51:51 pm
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> > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote: > > > > > > Soren, you said you used DEVFS without SLICE on regular basis. Tell me > > > then, please, what for, because I can't see what (significant) added > > > functionality over standard /dev/* it offered... > > > > It doesn't give me anything but an emptier looking /dev with only those > > devices in it that I actually have :) > > Mhmhm.. But it's unable to create slices/partition nodes on the fly, so > you mean you use it only for non-disk devices, right? Actually, you can: for i in $(diskdevices) do dd if=$i count=1 of=/dev/null done /in the rc.boot/early in the main rc file, before mount is called/ to make the devices stick their heads up. This is much less satisfying than the slice code, of course, but it will work. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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